See also: Raison

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French reson, raison, inherited from Latin ratiōnem. Compare the borrowed doublet ration.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ.zɔ̃/, /ʁe.zɔ̃/
  • (file)

Noun edit

raison f (plural raisons)

  1. reason (cause)
  2. reason (mental faculties)
  3. (mathematics) common difference (of an arithmetic series)
  4. (mathematics) common ratio (of a geometric series)

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Louisiana Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French raison (reason), compare Haitian Creole rezon.

Verb edit

raison

  1. to be right

References edit

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Old French edit

Noun edit

raison oblique singularf (oblique plural raisons, nominative singular raison, nominative plural raisons)

  1. Alternative form of reson

Yola edit

Noun edit

raison

  1. Alternative form of raaison
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Dinna ishe mee a raison.
      Do not ask me the reason.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 48